June 6 Home Video Arrivals Include 'Renfield,' 'Tulsa King' on Disc, 'Margaret,' 'Queens,' 'Taz' Digitally

Jan 31, 2024

John Latchem

June 6, 2023

Arriving in store shelves June 6 are new Blu-ray and DVD titles such as Renfield and the first season of "Tulsa King," while new digital releases include Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Somewhere in Queens and Taz: Quest for Burger.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release the Dracula spoof Renfield, with Nicolas Cage, through digital retailers and on Blu-ray Disc and DVD June 6. The "Dracula Sucks Edition" of the film includes an hour of bonus content, including deleted scenes and featurettes. Aside from Cage, the cast includes Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Brandon Scott Jones. Directed by Chris McKay and written by Ryan Ridley from a story by Robert Kirkman, the horror comedy is produced by Skybound Entertainment and Giant Wildcat. Hoult stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to Dracula (Cage). For centuries, Renfield has slavishly served Dracula by procuring his master's prey and doing his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, Renfield is ready to look for a new life outside Dracula's shadow of The Prince of Darkness, if only he can figure out how to end the toxic relationship. Renfield made just over $17 million at the domestic box office. Read a review here.

Paramount Home Entertainment releases season one of the comedy series "Tulsa King," starring Sylvester Stallone, on DVD and Blu-ray Disc June 6. A limited-edition Blu-ray Steelbook also will be available. Created by Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, who also serves as executive producer alongside Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Terence Winter, the series stars Stallone as Dwight "The General" Manfredi, a mafia capo who has just been released from prison after 25 years and is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet. In addition to Stallone, the first season stars Andrea Savage ("I’m Sorry"), Martin Starr ("Silicon Valley"), Jay Will ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"), Max Casella (The Tender Bar), Domenick Lombardozzi (The Irishman), Vincent Piazza ("Boardwalk Empire"), A.C. Peterson ("Superman & Lois") with Garrett Hedlund (The United States vs. Billie Holiday) and Dana Delany ("Body of Proof"). In addition to all nine episodes, the release includes more than 90 minutes of bonus content, in which the cast and crew discuss the different dynamics of the show's plot and setting and working with Sylvester Stallone. The extras also take a closer look at how costume design enhances the characters, look into the planning of the action-packed and safe stunts, and explore the differences between shooting in Brooklyn and Tulsa.

The comedic drama Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, based on best-selling classic by Judy Blume, arrives digitally June 6 from Lionsgate. The film stars Abby Ryder Fortson (Ant-Man and The Wasp, Forever My Girl), Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Mean Girls), Benny Safdie (Licorice Pizza, Good Time) and Kathy Bates (TV's "American Horror Story," Misery). It is written for the screen and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen). In the long-awaited movie adaption of Blume's coming-of-age novel, 11-year-old Margaret (Fortson) is uprooted from her life in New York City to the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara (McAdams), who is also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her adoring grandmother Sylvia (Bates). The film will be available via VOD June 27, and on BLu-ray and DVD July 11.

The comedy Somewhere in Queens, directed by and starring Ray Romano, will be available for digital purchase June 6 from Lionsgate. The film, which marks Romano's directorial debut, also stars Laurie Metcalf (TV's "The Conners" and "Roseanne"), Sebastian Maniscalco (About My Father, The Super Mario Bros. Movie), Tony Lo Bianco (The French Connection), Jennifer Esposito (TV's "Blue Bloods" and "The Boys"), Sadie Stanley (TV's "The Goldbergs") and Jon Manfrellotti (TV's "Men of a Certain Age"). In the comedy, Leo Russo (Romano) lives a simple life in Queens, N.Y., with his wife Angela (Metcalf), their son "Sticks" (Jacob Ward), and a colorful network of Italian-American relatives and friends. After Sticks gets a life-changing opportunity to play college basketball, Leo goes to unexpected lengths to try and make sure his son doesn't follow in his footsteps and end up in his family's construction business. It will be released for VOD viewing starting June 16.

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment will release the Looney Tunes new original animated movie Taz: Quest for Burger for digital sale June 6. In the movie, after an outlaw abducts her father and steals their town's food supply, a feisty adolescent Bandicoot named Quinn recruits The Tasmanian Devil to help her find the thief. Taz may be an ill-tempered rogue with a fearsome reputation, but he and Quinn will have to work together to track the criminal through the wilds of Tasmania and save her community. It features the voice talents of Steve Blum as Taz, Hadley Gannaway as Quinn, Eric Bauza as Sid/Bandicoot Friend, Ian James Corlett as Dad/Bill, Ely Henry as Aristotle, Piotr Michael as Lou/Stan, Kevin Michael Richardson as Butch/Emo, Jon Luke Thomas as Ned/Sam, James Urbaniak as Rocky, and Kari Wahlgren as Melanie/Koala.

MPI Media Group and Capelight Pictures will release the South Korean comedy Men of Plastic via VOD and digital sellthrough June 6. Set in South Korea in 2007, the film stars Don Lee as a business networker in the posh district of Apgujeong, Seoul. After hearing about the growing popularity of the plastic surgery business, he tries to partner with a young and brilliant plastic surgeon (Jung Kyung Ho). Their grand vision is build the largest and best plastic surgery business in South Korea.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be available for the first time on 4K Ultra HD individually and nationwide with Dolby Vision and HDR-10 on June 6 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Paramount Home Entertainment. The fifth film in the series, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, debuts in theaters June 30. Each film has been remastered from 4K scans of the original negatives. All picture work was approved by director Steven Spielberg. In addition, all four films were remixed at Skywalker Sound to create Dolby Atmos soundtracks. Each disc will be packaged with artwork inspired by the original theatrical posters and will include access to a digital copy of each respective film.

Kino Lorber on June 6 will release on Blu-ray Disc three classic 1960s "spaghetti Westerns," starring Clint Eastwood, from Italian director Sergio Leone. The three films — A Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — are collectively known as the "Man with No Name" trilogy.

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) finds Eastwood portraying a lean, cold-eyed, cobra-quick gunfighter who arrives in a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers terrorize the impoverished citizens. Though he receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang, his loyalty cannot be bought. He accepts both jobs — and sets in motion a deadly plan to destroy the criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated setups, showdowns and deadly confrontations. A Fistful of Dollars costars Marianne Koch and Gian Maria Volontè. The film's restoration included over 24 hours of extensive shot-by-shot color grading of the logarithmic restored 4K files provided by L’Immagine Ritrovata. Bonus features include audio commentary by novelist and critic Tim Lucas and film historian Sir Christopher Frayling, an interview with actress Koch, then-and-now location comparisons, and a featurette with Eastwood on the experience of making the film, among others.

The sequel For a Few Dollars More (1965) stars Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as two rival bounty hunters who join forces to bring murderous bandit El Indio (Gian Maria Volontè) and his vicious gang of criminals to justice. But all is not as it seems as their quest erupts in blistering gun battles, jailbreaks and bank holdups. The film also features a score by Ennio Morricone and co-stars Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli, Aldo Sambrell and Klaus Kinski. This film also was color edited, with the Blu-ray Disc including such bonus features as audio commentaries by Lucas and Frayling, a visit with filmmaker Alex Cox to location settings in Almería and Granada; Eastwood's remembrances; and the original Amerian release version of the film.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) concludes the "Man With No Name" trilogy. Eastwood returns as the anonymous lead character, this time teaming with two gunslingers to pursue a cache of $200,000 and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. Hailed as "the best directed movie of all time" by Quentin Tarantino, the film co-stars Van Cleef as Angel Eyes and Eli Wallach as Tuco. The 162-minute theatrical cut was restored through 30 hours of extensive shot-by-shot color grading from a 4K scan of a 1967 IB tech print. Bonus content on the disc includes audio commentary by Lucas; a making-of documentary; deleted and alternate scenes; a Civil War documentary; and various other featurettes.

The complete series of "The Event" will be released on Blu-ray Disc June 6 by Mill Creek Entertainment. The 22-episode conspiracy thriller — from Nick Wauters ("The 4400"), Steve Stark ("Medium"), Jeffrey Reiner ("Friday Night Lights") and Evan Katz ("24") — follows Sean Walker (Jason Ritter, "Gen V") as he investigates the disappearance of his would-be fiancée Leila (Sarah Roemer, Disturbia), unwittingly exposing a cover-up so big it could change the fate of all mankind. Sean's quest sends ripples through the lives of an eclectic band of strangers, including newly elected U.S. President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood, "In Treatment") and Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes, "ER"), the leader of a mysterious group of detainees. Scott Patterson ("Gilmore Girls"), Ian Anthony Dale ("Daybreak"), Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek), Taylor Cole (The Violent Kind), Lisa Vidal ("The Division"), Bill Smitrovich ("The Practice") and Zeljko Ivanek ("Damages") also star.

The Nicolas Cage action-adventure Lord of War (2005) will arrive in a Best Buy exclusive 4K Ultra HD Steelbook combo pack (plus Blu-ray and digital) on June 6 from Lionsgate. Directed by Andrew Niccol (The Host, Good Kill, Anon), the film follows Yuri Orlov (Cage), an arms dealer whose clients include merciless dictators. With his brother's help, he reaches the top of his trade, supplying anyone whose check clears. His skills and quick wits bring him everything he's ever wanted — and help him elude a persistent Interpol agent. But at the peak of his prowess, he discovers his customers might demand more than he can give, and those he's trying to protect could become deadly liabilities. The film also stars Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Ian Holm and Bridget Moynahan.

A complete list of new disc and digital releases, compiled each week by the Media Play News market research team, can be found here.

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